Interrogation Records

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>WINNER of the 2025 Lammy Awards for Bisexual Poetry</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></strong><strong><em>Interrogation Records </em>is not only an important piece of historical research but also a display of significant poetic talent. --Electric Literature 15 New and Forthcoming Collections You Should Be Reading</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The winner of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize selected by Divya Victor.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Breaking the silence and collective amnesia around the Indonesian mass killings of 1965.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To this day there exists a black hole of silence in Indonesia's socio-political climate in acknowledging the 1965 Indonesian mass killings as what they were-tragedy. Jeddie Sophronius' </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Interrogation Records</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a rare docupoetry collection that explores and calls into question the 'official' narratives revolving around the 1965 massacre. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Also known as The Communist Purge the massacre resulted in the slaughter of members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and anyone accused of affiliations to it-many of whom were civilians-by the Indonesian army. Throughout the collection the voice of Sophronius' speaker/researcher is quiet but always present </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>contending with the aftermath of state violence and silencing </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in a masterful blend of personal and collective history memory and remembering. Sophronius presents both authoritative and artistic language in the same plane urging us to consider </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>how documents archives and testimony may hold affective power and excavate a different truth. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(49 49 49 1)></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Within a climate of silence and erasure </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Interrogation Records</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a remedy of collective amnesia. </span></p>